Medicinal Plant Use Among the Congolese (Democratic Republic of Congo) Community in Belgium

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41340%2F24%3A101452" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41340/24:101452 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10745-024-00502-8" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10745-024-00502-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10745-024-00502-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10745-024-00502-8</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Medicinal Plant Use Among the Congolese (Democratic Republic of Congo) Community in Belgium

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

When the biocultural landscape differs from the country of origin, migrants develop strategies to maintain ethnobotanical habits and/or adapt them to the new environment. We conducted 30 semistructured interviews with people of Congolese descent to investigate medicinal plant use among the Congolese community (Democratic Republic of Congo) in Belgium. Participants were selected through snowball sampling and purposive sampling. We collected data on the plants used, administration methods, origins of used plants, and methods of obtaining plant material and recorded the use through free-listing. Our analysis focused on plant use, medicinal use values, geographic distributions, and plant obtention strategies. We recorded 86 plant species from 41 plant families used to treat 112 conditions. The species with the highest medicinal use value were Zingiber officinale Roscoe., Citrus limon (L.) Burm. f., and Lippia multiflora Moldenke. Plant species with the highest use values were brought from Congo to Belgium by the participants or their acquaintances. The used plants were mainly obtained through formal and informal trade.. The effects of urbanization and globalization were visible in the high diversity of plants from a wide range of geographical origins. However, the large proportion of plant species with a global or pantropic species distribution revealed that the set of used plant species is subject to biotic homogenization.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Medicinal Plant Use Among the Congolese (Democratic Republic of Congo) Community in Belgium

Popis výsledku anglicky

When the biocultural landscape differs from the country of origin, migrants develop strategies to maintain ethnobotanical habits and/or adapt them to the new environment. We conducted 30 semistructured interviews with people of Congolese descent to investigate medicinal plant use among the Congolese community (Democratic Republic of Congo) in Belgium. Participants were selected through snowball sampling and purposive sampling. We collected data on the plants used, administration methods, origins of used plants, and methods of obtaining plant material and recorded the use through free-listing. Our analysis focused on plant use, medicinal use values, geographic distributions, and plant obtention strategies. We recorded 86 plant species from 41 plant families used to treat 112 conditions. The species with the highest medicinal use value were Zingiber officinale Roscoe., Citrus limon (L.) Burm. f., and Lippia multiflora Moldenke. Plant species with the highest use values were brought from Congo to Belgium by the participants or their acquaintances. The used plants were mainly obtained through formal and informal trade.. The effects of urbanization and globalization were visible in the high diversity of plants from a wide range of geographical origins. However, the large proportion of plant species with a global or pantropic species distribution revealed that the set of used plant species is subject to biotic homogenization.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

40101 - Agriculture

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Human Ecology

ISSN

0300-7839

e-ISSN

0300-7839

Svazek periodika

52

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

607-616

Kód UT WoS článku

001226716600001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85193322910